Paper making is an important cottage industry here in Thailand. They make paper from almost all types of material. The bark of the Saa tree for Saa paper which you can buy at most stationary shops, cogon, even banana stalks.

Below is a box made from banana paper.

Since these boxes are already very pretty, you would not need to wrap your gift.

One thing that Thais are good at is in coming up with new products. So with a very common material like clay - you would think that clay is good only for making pots and vases. In Thailand, the make much more that just that. They turned dirt into gold.